Lucifer's Dance November 9, 2008

Karlheinz Stockhausen Gesang der junglinge (Song of the youths) for tape
Karlheinz Stockhausen Lucifers Tanz (Samstag aus Licht)

Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra
Clark Rundell conductor

The festival finale, Lucifers Tanz (Lucifer's Dance), was written for an enormous wind band, which Stockhausen imagined in the form of a demonic face, groups of instruments representing the mouth, the eyes and the nose. The virtuosic wind players of the Royal Northern College of Music perform the London premiere of this work in a concert which also includes Stockhausen's early masterpiece for electronic tape Gesang der Junglinge (Song of Youths).

Official Website: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/calendar/productions/lucifer-s-dance-41708